AutoCAD Inventor :: Dome Solid Without Hard Edges

Mar 14, 2013

I need to create several domed solids (as different parts) based on 2D sketches of various shapes.  I am trying to emulate domes that you might creating by pouring thick resin.

Using this forum I have found that you can do this easily using Loft to-point, then use the Conditions tab to get the dome height/shape set nicely.

The only problem is when the 2D shapes have a corner that is too sharp - then it leaves ridges on the domes - like the arrows show on this example - which is based on a simple rectangle with 0.5m radius corners:

I found one thread on this forum that said to use Delete-Face, then Patch - but the I couldn't get the patch to leave nice smoothed edges - and without bulging.

View 9 Replies


ADVERTISEMENT

Maya Modeling :: How To Smoothen Solid / Hard Edges

Oct 26, 2012

im having a hard time smoothing the edges of my character. i tried deleting the hard/solid edge but maya cant and always ->// Warning: Border edges cannot be deleted merged yes its already merged with the body... i tried to relax the vertices but still didnt work

View 1 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Solid Model Of IPT Or IAM Made To Show Blocked Edges

Feb 23, 2012

I would like to be able to export from an Inventor .dwg or .idw made up of various views (either made from an Inventor .ipt or .iam) to an AutoCAD 2000 or later .dwg, and have the objects modeled in the Inventor .ipt/.iam that is shown in these views to already be shown as blocked entities when the AutoCAD .dwg is created.  Also it is important to have the scale be exactly 1:1 from the Inventor drawing to the AutoCAD drawing that is created, so that no resizing/scaling is necessary.  Is it possible to create such an AutoCAD 2D drawing from any release of Inventor and if so, what are the steps/procedure for making it??? 

I know that the solid model of an .ipt or .iam can be made to show blocked edges that appear as a block so why not two steps further and have this capability translate through to an .ipt or .iam Inventor drawing to a save copy as AutoCAD drawing??? 

View 4 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Dome With Fins Construction

Nov 22, 2011

How better to represent this shape - its a dome, which the height is a parameter (elispe), and the fins coming off the top of the dome are supposed to be angled (thicker at the bottom then the top), and the height of the fins needs to increase as they move towards the center.

I created a dome with a repeating pattern of fins but having trouble getting the varying thickness of each fin along with the varying height - the whole part I'm wanting it to be a thin wall shell that can be cast in aluminum and then cleaned up with cnc -

View 9 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Constructing Ribs Along Dome Surface?

Nov 25, 2011

Trying to get ribs / fins constructed along the surface of this dome - like them to be evenly spaced and follow the angled plane above.  Any thoughts on best way to build this ?  Repeating patern doen't work because width of fin changes for each iteration across the dome.

View 2 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Creating Dome - Surface Area Calculation

Feb 23, 2013

How to create a dome using just the surface area?

View 1 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Convert Surface To Solid Model / Turn Off Yellow Edges In Surface Model

Mar 4, 2008

We received a surface model from a vendor that I have patched up as best I can, it still has one hole that I can find that I haven't been able to fill. Ideally we would like to have a solid model, but I'm running out of time to get this done and the surface model we have would be good enough for our purposes IF I can get the yellow surface tangent lines to turn off or change their color to black.

I've attached a jpg of the surface model with the yellow lines and uploaded the model here: [URL].....

View 9 Replies View Related

Photoshop :: Draw Lines With Hard Edges?

Dec 3, 2012

When I draw a line in photoshop creates a blurry outline around the line that does not occur when I draw the line in Paint. How do I achieve the same solid line in Photoshop?

View 5 Replies View Related

AutoDesk Smoke :: Hard Edges With Rays?

Aug 27, 2012

I'm trying to simulate a light beam, but my rays have such hard edges (especially the one on top). Is there no way of 'fading' them out or blurring them? I tried AA, but that didn't work.

Smoke 2012 SAP2 SP4
and
Smoke 2013 SP2 (Smoke Classic Keyboard Shortcuts)
Mac Pro 4,1
OS X 10.6.7
12 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000
14 TB RAID (Areca)

View 9 Replies View Related

Photoshop :: Blur With Solid Edges..?

Apr 11, 2009

I have no idea where to start. I guess I want to keep the edges defined, but still have a blur-type effect in there. But I also like how the colors are kinda washed, if that's the right term for it?

View 4 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Split A Single Solid Body Into 2 Solid Bodies?

Sep 19, 2012

I'm trying to split a single solid body into 2 solid bodies. The problem is that the body I'm trying to split consists of two separate pieces. I can split a body when it is a single piece no problem, but I'm having the problem when the two pieces are not joined at all.

When I try and split it on the origin plane it gives this error:

"Creating parting line failed. Could not build this Split"

When I try and split it on a work plane lying on one of the pieces it gives this error:

"Creating parting line failed. Modeling failure in ASM. Redefine inputs."

Or, another variation on this erorr:

"Creating parting line failed. Split feature could not create two bodies. Change the Split Tool so that split feature can create two bodies."

View 4 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Make Solid / Change Parameter Of Solid

Nov 18, 2012

I am making a design on inventor 2013 for a colleague who does not know how to use the inventor.

I want to make the solid and then set something up that allows the user to change a few of the parameters of the solid in a very user friendly way (i.e. a box that says "cylinder radius" and has an input box so the user can enter a value).

View 9 Replies View Related

3ds Max :: Create A Solid Shape From Selected Edges?

Jan 5, 2013

I'm creating a bin model. I've hollowed it out, the thickness of the bin tapers from top to bottom. I have selected the edges at the bottom of the bin and just want to connect these to form a solid shape which can be the base of the bin. At the moment it's hollow all the way through.

When I select these edges, then select 'border' and 'cap', nothing happens. How do I make this selection into a simple circular base?

View 3 Replies View Related

Photoshop :: Solid Gray Color On Edges But White Towards Center

Jun 26, 2011

The gray box has a solid gray color on the edges but white towards the center. How do I make this effect?

View 9 Replies View Related

Xara :: How To Make Center Transparent With Edges Graduating To Solid Color

Jun 4, 2012

I have been trying how to figure out how to make the center if an object transparent with color gradually appearing on the borders. The transarency tool insists on starting with a solid color in the center. If using a square as an example, how do I make the center transparent with the edges graduating to a solid color?

View 5 Replies View Related

AutoCad 3D :: How To Build 4v Geodesic Dome

Nov 17, 2011

I have to design a 3d model of 4v geodesic dome and I've never ever used 3d feature before . I am using Autocad 2012.

View 9 Replies View Related

AutoCad 3D :: Easy Way To Make Geodesic Dome

Aug 20, 2007

i would like to build one of these domes in my backyard and id like to be able to make simple plans to use. how would i go about drawing one of these up or is there a simple command like sphere or torus that would start me out? URL....

View 6 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Visual LISP / AutoLISP :: Draw Geodesic Dome Shape?

Sep 15, 2000

how to draw a geodesic dome shape? some sort of lisp routine perhaps...

View 7 Replies View Related

Photoshop :: Make Dome Shape

Apr 15, 2005

how to make this dome shape in photoshop.

View 4 Replies View Related

Illustrator :: Creating A 3D Dome Shape?

Aug 29, 2013

Just doing my normal practise in Illustrator. Ive came across designing a dome sphere shape. And Im using the 3d revolve techniqe, So I have my symbol to map onto the 3d elipse. but towards the top of the sphere the symbol tends to get distorted, and it looks aweful. So I also tried another technique to envolope distort with top object but its hard to achieve making it look 3d, because the sphere faces dont go around.

View 13 Replies View Related

Photoshop :: How To Apply Image To 2 Piece 3D Dome

Mar 25, 2012

I have a specific requirement which is to apply an image, pattern or text to a 3d dome. The dome is will be in two half's and layed flat in 2d then printed off with the design so that when the two halves are joined together the image or pattern matches across the seam. Is this even possible?

View 2 Replies View Related

Photoshop :: How To Create Dome Wireframe Effect For Use In Background

Jan 18, 2011

how to create a dome wireframe effect for use in a background?

View 3 Replies View Related

Lightroom :: Move Or Migrate Hard Drives To Another Hard Drive

Feb 15, 2012

I have several hard drives. Say D, E and F. I want to migrate or move the folders that are listed under each hard drive in my lightroom to say Hard Drive G. How do I do this so that all my keywords, and selects and color codes move with it? and that in lightroom G hard drive would be my only hard drive listed? I want to do this to get everything nice and orderly

View 3 Replies View Related

Maya Animation :: Animating Rotation Of IBL Dome Doesn't Render

Apr 22, 2011

When I set up the Image based lighting in Mental Ray, and key the dome that is created to rotate in a animation, it is clearly rotating in the viewport, and when I render individual frames, it works, but when I batch render (confirming that the render range is set correctly) it renders each frame with the dome in the same position.

View 1 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Kfactor Value To Use For Folding And Unfolding Nickel Alloy 200 - 1 / 4 Hard

May 10, 2012

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2011

Sheet Metal

I need to know the Kfactor to use for folding and unfolding Nickel Alloy 200 - 1/4 hard.

View 3 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Shaded With Edges Always On?

Jun 5, 2012

How can you set by default the ''shades with edges'' visual style by default ? I always work with that visual style, I have to set it every time I open a part or assembly.

View 2 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Visual LISP / AutoLISP :: Select Non-solid Entities On Solid Layer

Mar 19, 2012

We have this need to have all of the solids in a drawing to be placed in the "solid" layer.

Sometimes folks are drafting lines to develop these solids, and keeping the lines on the "solid" layer, rather than moving them to another layer, or deleting them altogether.

I could get folks to run this command before leaving the drawing.

I'm thinking something along the lines of:

Select all entities that are on the solids layer that are not solids.

If nil, great, do nothing.

If entities are selected, let me do something with them.

I'm hoping the following can be modified ever so slightly.

 (setq non_solid (ssget "X" (list (cons 0 "3DSOLID")(cons 8 "solid"))))

View 4 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Import 3D As Solid Objects Or Convert Polymesh To Solid

Jun 18, 2013

I have a.3ds file imported into Civil 3d. The object imported as a polymesh in Civil 3d. I need the solid 3d object to do some edit like slice or union and subtract.

The question is "How can I import .3ds into Civil 3d as a solid objects or hoe can i convert polymesh to solid?"

View 9 Replies View Related

AutoCAD 2013 :: Converting Complex Solid Surface To Solid Model

Aug 12, 2013

I have finally created the shell of the complex surface that you see. This is only a section of the part because I cannot show the whole thing for proprietary reasons. I formed solid surfaces using the network command. The propblem is that it will not convert to a solid because the surface seams are not "water tight." When the network command created the solid surfaces, the surface seams do not exactly match the lines so there are gaps in all the seams. I have tried blending, patching, etc. and nothing works. how to convert this to a solid without losing the outlines and the shape?

View 3 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Jagged Edges On Drawing?

May 13, 2013

Is it the limitation of my hardware that gets me these jagged edges or is there a way to at least make drawings with smooth lines?

View 9 Replies View Related

AutoCAD Inventor :: Display Tangent Edges

Aug 29, 2012

I am still making some adjustments to our standard drawing template and I ran into another issue.. 

I want the tangent edges to be displayed automatically when I insert a drawing view rather than clicking the Display Options tab and checking the Tangent Edges box every time I make a new drawing.  Is this possible?  If so, how?

I tried inserting a view, checking the Tangent Edges box, then deleting my view and re-saving the template but it still went back to the default.

View 7 Replies View Related







Copyrights 2005-15 www.BigResource.com, All rights reserved